KRS 216B.0445: Outpatient health facility operated by hospital -- Licensure --

Certificate of need.

(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, if the Federal Health

Care Financing Administration issues a final regulation establishing an outpat ient

Medicare prospective payment system for hospitals that requires that an outpatient

health facility operated by the hospital be under the same license as the hospital to

achieve provider-based status, the cabinet shall, at the hospital's request, issue a new

license to a hospital that owns and operates an existing or newly established

outpatient health facility that lists each location operated by the hospital.

(2) Any outpatient health facility listed on the hospital's license under subsection (1) of

this section shall:

(a) Comply with the applicable licensure regulations that pertain to the type of

health services provided; and

(b) Prior to the establishment of a health facility, the operation of a health facility,

or the provision of health services o r the addition of a health service at a

location other than the hospital's main campus, obtain a certificate of need if a

certificate of need would otherwise be required in the absence of subsection

(1) of this section. Licensure of the outpatient health f acility or service under

the same license as the hospital pursuant to subsection (1) of this section shall

not eliminate the requirement for a certificate of need.